Improvement in making kettle-ears



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

MORRIS VELLS, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT |N MAKING KETTLE-EARS. t

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 28,2522. dated May 8, 1800.

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Be it known that I, Monats WELLS, of Brooklyn, E. D., in the county of Kings and State ot' New York, have invented a new and Improved Kettle-Ear; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe manner of making the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 represents a kettle-ear completed with the exception ot' punching holes through it and turning over its edges. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section taken through Fig. l. Fig. is a similar view where two stiftening-plates are used instead of one. f Fig. 4 shows a kettlc-ear co1nplete,ready for nailing to a bucket or riveting to akettle. Fig. 5 is asection taken through the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Kettle or bucket ears, or those small plates that are secured to the sides of vessels having a bail or handle, are usually made of thick plates ot' wrought sheet-iron, brass, 83o., in one piece, and these are cut out from plates with a suitable punch, and form a distinct department in large establishments, where a great number ot' buckets or kettles are manufactured, and in their manufacture quite a large quantity oi' valuable metal is worked up. These ears, after being stamped from the sheets of metal, are punched, filed up, and finished, requiring much time, labor, and a large consumpt-ion ot' metal that might be used forv other purposes.

My invention has for its object the manufacturing of kettle andbucket ears in a more neat and handsome style with little trouble and of refuse scraps of tin, such as are usually thrown away as useless for any purpose,

as will be hereinafter described. rlhey are given the requisite strength, durability, and stiffness, and answer the same ends as those that are stamped from thick sheet-iron and then iinished up.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand my invention, Iwill proceed to dcscribe its construction and operation.

rIhe ears represented iu the drawings are to be made with suitable machinery, which first cuts up the scraps of tin in the shape shown by Figs. l and 4. By punching, the pieces (t are somewhatlarger all around than the pieces b, and these pieces a have their edges turned up more or less, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. rlhis work should all be done with punches and dies, so that it can be done rapidly and eticientl y.

c are circular plates, which are placed in the plates a, as represent-ed in the drawings, for giving stiffness and strength to the ears; and one, two, or more of these plates may be used in the hea-d of the ear, where the hooked end of the bail is passed through and attached. The plate b is also used for giving stiitness to the body of the ear and to prevent the eyes or rivet-holes from drawing out from the rivets when they are properly clinched. When the plates are placed together with their stiffening plates interposed, the edge of the outer or face plate, a, is bent over and hammered down, as in Figs. 4.- and 5, and the ears thus made are placed in a suitable press and given the proper shape for applying them to the buckets 0r kettles, and punched for receiving the rivets in securing them to the kettle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The kettle-ears constructed in the manner herein set forth, forming a new article of' manu facture.

MORRIS WELLS.

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